18/04/2026
Antonia Nisbet’s exhibition 𝘈𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 grapples with our inability to comprehend the imminent potential of a decisive global catastrophe. In particular, Nisbet takes interest in the Doomsday Clock, one measure for determining the severity of such existential threat, which currently estimates that we are a mere ‘85 seconds to midnight’.
With humour and wit, Nisbet develops a distinct vernacular for art making which is both materially and conceptually driven. Her installations combine text, banners, printed ephemera, and a range of participatory formats, to register daily, provisional modes of coping. Through improvised, accumulative, and durational processes, Arriving in Stages investigates the relationship between socio-political events and personal civic social response, cohering as a system of artworks that are concurrently provisional, critical, and temporally responsive. In this way the project asks what forms of attention, such as care, repair, love, and commitment, remain possible here and now.
𝘈𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 is the culmination of Antonia Nisbet’s PhD studies. The opening celebration is Thursday 23 April 5-7pm, all welcome.
